Results: 73

• Portman v J Lyons and Co Ltd

  24 Nov 1936 [1937] Ch 584, Ch D

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Covenant to produce assignment or under-lease
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Covenant to produce assignment or under-lease — Under-lease of whole followed by underlease of part to lessee — Application of covenant to such underlease.

• In Re Warwick’s Settlement Trusts; Greville Trust Co v Grey

  28 Apr 1937 [1937] Ch 561, Ch D

  18 Feb 1938 [1938] Ch 530, CA

  SETTLED LAND — Tenant for life — Assignment of equitable life interest
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  SETTLED LAND — Tenant for life — Assignment of equitable life interest — Deficiency of income to meet jointure and interest on portions — Payment in full by assignee — Whether assignee entitled to recoupment out of corpus.

• Alderton v Essex County Council

  10 Jun 1937 [1937] Ch 541, Ch D

  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — County Council — Voting powers of member
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — County Council — Voting powers of member — Electoral division part of borough — Local Education Authority — Education Committee — Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-committee — Prohibition of right to vote on certain questions — Whether applicable to voting on matters referred or delegated to committees — Education Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 9 — Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 75.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Anchor Line (Henderson Brothers) Ltd[No 00278 of 1935]

  29 Nov 1935 [1936] Ch 211, Ch D

  30 Jun 1936 [1937] Ch 1, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONTRACT — Sale of goods — Sale of crane in deliverable condition
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  CONTRACT — Sale of goods — Sale of crane in deliverable condition — Delivery to purchasing company — Deferred payment — Annual payments for “interest and depreciation” — Whether property in crane passed — Winding-up of company — Sale of assets by liquidator — Liquidator treated as adopting contract — Right of vendors to balance of purchase-money — Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), s. 17, sub-ss. 1, 2; s. 18, r. 1; s. 25.

  2 Statutes considered

• In Re Duce and Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd’s Contract

  28 Jul 1937 [1937] Ch 642, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Sale of land — Abstract of title
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  VENDOR AND PURCHASER — Sale of land — Abstract of title — Requisitions — Will of previous owner disclosed — Son to whom land bequeathed appointed sole executor — Daughter given right to occupy land during life or spinsterhood — Vesting assent by son — Consent to land vesting in himself — No release of her right by daughter — Whether vesting assent conclusive evidence that son “entitled to have the legal estate conveyed to him” — Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 36, sub-s. 7.

  1 Statute considered
• White v Bijou Mansions Ltd

  28 May 1937 [1937] Ch 610, Ch D

  09 Feb 1938 [1938] Ch 351, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  COVENANT — Restrictive covenants — Right to enforce
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  COVENANT — Restrictive covenants — Right to enforce — No regulations common to estate — Plaintiff not a grantee or covenantee named in conveyance containing covenant — Meaning of “assigns” — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 56, sub-s. 1.

  3 Statutes considered

• Sutherland Publishing Co Ltd v Caxton Publishing Co Ltd

  27 Jan 1937 [1937] Ch 294, Ch D

  COPYRIGHT — Conversion — Damages
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  COPYRIGHT — Conversion — Damages — Act of conversion — Limitation of time for commencement of action — Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46), ss. 6, 7, 10, 35.

  1 Statute considered

• Middlesex County Valuation Committee v West Middlesex Assessment Area Committee

  22 Jan 1937 [1937] Ch 361, CA

  RATING — County Valuation Committee — Attendance of representative of County Valuation Committee at meetings of assessment committee
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  RATING — County Valuation Committee — Attendance of representative of County Valuation Committee at meetings of assessment committee — Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 17, sub-s. 5; s. 18, sub-s. 2; Sch. I., para. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re Bulmer, Ex Parte Greaves

  15 Jan 1937 [1937] Ch 499, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  BANKRUPTCY — Committee of Inspection — Limited company
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  BANKRUPTCY — Committee of Inspection — Limited company — Appointment as member — Appointment of proxy to represent company on committee — Fiduciary position — Purchase by representative of company from bank of shares held as security for money owing pom debtor — Ignorance of purchaser of identity of owner of equity of redemption with debtor — Validity of transaction as against trustee in bankruptcy — Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), s. 20 — Bankruptcy Rules, 1915, rr. 347, 348.

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Craven’s Estate, In re; Lloyds Bank v Cockburn (No 1)

  27 Apr 1937 [1937] Ch 423, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  GIFT — Donatio mortis causa — Conflict of laws
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  GIFT — Donatio mortis causa — Conflict of laws — British donor — Estate administered in England — Money and securities in bank abroad — Power of attorney with regard to them given to son — Subsequent directions by donor to son to have them transferred to his own name as his property — Instructions sent by him to bank before donor's death.